An Integrative Approach to Marital Therapy: Transactional Analysis

Abstract

This article presents an approach to marital therapy that considers behavior, interpersonal relationships, and intrapsychic issues. This integrative model offers the opportunity to be eclectic in an organized, systematic way and helps avoid the pitfalls of biases, inexperience, dogmatism, and rigidity on the part of the therapist. In addition, because of clearly delineated stages, the possibility exists for problem resolution in one of the early stages, leaving the deeper stages for those marital problems that warrant more in-depth therapeutic intervention.